Lurker > SantaRPidgey

I remember beating sonic 1

it's really not a good game!
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Nanis has a good point, even if it's not here, watching a direct is exciting because you get to see the games revealed one by one

If you think reading a list is as exciting as watching a hype trailer, more power to you, but it really shouldn't take too much lateral thinking, even for b8, to imagine that some prefer the latter.

so put goddamn spoiler tags in opening posts of these things!
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Dude, put spoiler tags in the opening post
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I lost all the copies I had of that drawing

I blame aga
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HBJDubs posted...

As is tradition my first game of the year is a JRPG (FFXV year one, Tales Of The Abyss year two). Current Tales ranking: Graces > Abyss > Berseria > Xillia > Vesperia > Zestiria > Legendia. I'm debating whether to go for Xillia 2 or Symphonia next, although neither will be for awhile cause I'd like to actually have a shot at 50 games this year. 1/50

I'm only on the second chapter of Berseria, but I can't imagine having Abyss even remotely near it on the ratings.

Seems as you've played all the tales games I haven't played, so I can't really gauge your opinion in these things. I do want to play graces soon.
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Real talk: Daphne Taggart is maybe one of my top ten characters in fiction
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Resident evil plz
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I don't even bother with microwaves that don't have an "add 30" button
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#unbump#

probably not getting to this anymore
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Physical media is more likely for me to take the game seriously, and beat it/complete it

but it also creates more mental pressure and sometimes it's hard for me to motivate myself to deal with that pressure
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JonThePenguin posted...

SantaRPidgey posted...

I rolled for my TVtropes game:

Tony Hawk's Underground

not bad! A game from the "When tony hawk was still good" era

More like the END of the When tony hawk was still good era.

it's still part of the era! Even if it's the dying breath.
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kateee posted...

Gamecube:
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Resident Evil

I'll take these
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Ever? Probably

Regularly? Nah
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yeah but I mean it's pretty low on my priority list this time.

plus they get less everywhere when you're 30.

With how bad US and UM were maybe pokemon just won't be good anymore and even I won't like it
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oh maybe I'll check it....

DeveloperGust

oh lol no
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TexasZea posted...

Nah but I'm with someone who owns an estimated $25000 in Pokemon and Zelda merchandise

the dream.

I doubt I'll find someone who likes pokemon the second time : (

who will play the second version simultaneously with me
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is zea married???
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18GvKh09QS8AmDWKVaE--7JZS9xkkuzC0dSpXcwO30A8/edit?usp=sharing

Now that I'm a divorced man with expendable income, time to start working on my n64 collection again

this will help me get a wife
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I think I need to acknowledge that there's no changing your user name on board 8 but I respect your effort.
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User of the Year went from being a fun contest of whos-who on the board to a circle jerk of people in the discord or board 8 chat, it basically has nothing to do with board 8 any more, besides the fact that it's posted here.
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I rolled for my TVtropes game:

Tony Hawk's Underground

not bad! A game from the "When tony hawk was still good" era
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I'm sad too GYM.

Wanna come visit my house and live here for a while? It's gmun approved!
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norenxaq posted...

kn: no one is allowed "whippersnapper" until they are AT LEAST my age...

But I will never catch up to you : (
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SmartMuffin posted...

Interesting idea that came to me during an SSC discussion.

Part of the reason that platonic, mutually beneficial friendships between men and women are virtually impossible is because men won't put up with it. Not the lonely nerds who will do anything for attention, they will. But the Chads won't put up with it. They don't want their girlfriends having some legitimate meaningful friendship with another guy they don't know or aren't friends with themselves. Nor should they, because they understand the male mind well enough to know that he isn't harmless, and that ultimately he wants in her pants. He'd only tolerate it if the girl could make him feel confident that she was just using the other guy, which is what makes the relationship one of usage and not a true "friendship" (because there's no reciprocity).

It it astonishing how out of touch with reality you are.
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turning 30 isn't so bad. It's hard to describe but it's like life puts her hands gingerly on your shoulder, and whispers sweetly into your ear: "It's ok to give up now"
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most of my clothes are from 5 or more years ago

the rest are hand me downs, thrift store buys, or gifts from my mom or ex-wife
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well said robot GTM
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I mean it wasn't an actively bad game, but it was definitely more pretentious than it was "fun"

I mean the best parts about the game were learning all the neat ways you could speed through it.
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I think it might actually be "Fairy Battle" from FFIX
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39. Finish a game in one day


Bound PS4

Participating in this challenge makes me feel less like I wasted my time on this game : )
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I'm honestly envious! I genuinely wish I could get past the annoying parts enough to enjoy the good parts
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it does have the best music in the series though.
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It certainly has a good game buried underneath the hours and hours of pointless gameplay. Honestly I'd love it if it wasn't for all the crazy busywork attached. But so much of the game seems designed to waste my time, after beating the game at 250 hours, I'd have to say at least 30 is me just going through bad menus, activating cores, feeding my blades, and doing other weird things that just weren't fun. Doing tedious work for 30 hours is a lot to ask from a game! I think I still had 7 blades I didn't pull by the end, but the concept of having to go through that menu for hours again, only to have to feed each blade until they were at 9800 trust just made me sick, so I had to call it quits.

It's the first Xenoblade I didn't 100% complete, and I'm genuinely sad about that
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I would disagree!

unless you mean the franchise in general, then yeah.

Chronicles 2 sucked though
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with how bad 2016 was I think everyone was just really willing to love the next episode in the series as long as it didn't make the same mistakes
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Copy and pasting from LtM's topic

Final Fantasy XV- PS4

the good kind of boring

I really liked FFXV, I thought it was a welcome change from FFXIII where you needed to have a vocabulary lesson after every chapter to just have a FFXV where you were just driving around and listening to music and fighting monsters as you like. It really was a pretty good road trip simulator.

I didn't mind the ring halls as much as everyone else did, but it didn't really need to be in the game. I didn't think exploration was very tedious, because I LOVED riding chocobos with Vamo' Alla Flamenco playing in the background.

If they gave you the ability to change the battle music in boss fights to past game music, or not have enemy ranges change the music to the stupid sneaking music I would have liked it even more!

I for one totally support the new era of Final Fantasy without plot, honestly I wish this game had LESS plot. If it was just about noctis stalling before he had to get married, it would have been 100% better. Final fantasy has always had some of the worst plots in gaming (besides IV and VII) and I really liked the break. I'll take cup noodles advertisements over fal'cie nonsense any day.
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I really liked FFXV, I thought it was a welcome change from FFXIII where you needed to have a vocabulary lesson after every chapter to just have a FFXV where you were just driving around and listening to music and fighting monsters as you like. It really was a pretty good road trip simulator.

I didn't mind the ring halls as much as everyone else did, but it didn't really need to be in the game. I didn't think exploration was very tedious, because I LOVED riding chocobos with Vamo' Alla Flamenco playing in the background.

If they gave you the ability to change the battle music in boss fights to past game music, or not have enemy ranges change the music to the stupid sneaking music I would have liked it even more!

I for one totally support the new era of Final Fantasy without plot, honestly I wish this game had LESS plot. If it was just about noctis stalling before he had to get married, it would have been 100% better. Final fantasy has always had some of the worst plots in gaming (besides IV and VII) and I really liked the break. I'll take cup noodles advertisements over fal'cie nonsense any day.
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I haven't paid attention to dillos in like a month

hows everyone here doing
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I've been assuming you were 40+ for the past decade

this is quite the shocker
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Bib by a long shot and its not even close
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the 80's outfit doesn't really look like a 80s outfit, it's just something cindi lauper, a person who was alive in the 80s, wore
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oh sweet this didn't purge yet.

#bump#

that's how this shit works right
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 beated

Final boss overkill was pretty darn fun after three times accidentally not smashing any orbs during a team attack and dying right after
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Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon - 3DS


Stupid/Fun


I initially bashed on this game, it's method of collecting every pokemon is really just baffling. You're randomly assigned a web of pokemon, and you collect them in a preset order that doesn't seem to make any sense. It gives the illusion of a branching tree, but the method you get all your pokemon is pretty darn linear, and beyond reason. You might not get paras until 50 hours in for example even though you see him on your branching tree early in the game. As always with the series, the story is the worst thing in the world and legitimately painful to slog through, but once you're done with that 30 hour endeavor, you've got an awesome pokemon roguelike on your hands, and honestly pokemon roguelike is hard to get wrong! Even if you're forced to watch a bunch of pokemon eat dinner for 3 seconds after every completed dungeon (I guess this is like a series tradition for some goddamn reason?)
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Ok now we're into the "goodish" games with flaws section

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (spoiler free)

Dude WTF

Xenoblade Chronicles 2. All it had to do was be pretty good compared to X and this was going to be my game of the year. I wasn't expecting perfection, I wasn't expecting that all the series flaws would be fixed. There's no way I could have expected that I would be spending around 10 hours of my life watching some loser hold a crystal in front of their body and it flashing with three blades (for no reason) over and over again until I got the next story character. There's no way I would have expected a side quest, that's already taken 50 minutes of my time, would tell me to WAIT 50 in game minutes before I can do the next part. I couldn't have guessed that I would be spending hours per character giving them items they don't like so I could get enough affinity to accept their quest.The attempts of Xenoblade to waste my time, are more bizarre than anything. Maybe the developers felt they needed to fluff up their play time? But without all the busywork and clunky UI they still have a 200 hour game on their hands, so at what point is it enough?

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is all in all a great game when it manages to be a game. The story is fun, the characters are great, the battle system is really improved, voice acting is great, the music is the best in the series, there's a lot of great stuff here. I would say by play time, this 300 hour game offers 120 hours of great moments. 120 hours of great moments is really fucking cool, and I wish I could recommend it without mentioning that the other 180 is just pure tedium.

Environments are also a downgrade from past xenoblades, in other games, there was nothing you could see that you couldn't explore. In 2, lots of areas are just linear paths in a bigger world that's literally walled off to you. In certain areas, interesting things in the distance are obstructed by a wall with an invisible wall above preventing you from jumping over. It just feels like a huge step backwards, and a lot less fun to explore.

I also want to point out after the great organization of X, 2 is a mess. There's no way to tell when you've done everything, there's no list of heart to hearts, the quest list looks like it was made for an iphone game, everything just feels cluttered and chaotic, which stinks because there's a lot of repetitive back tracking that needs to happen. I rarely used the follow ball in X, but I would use it ALL the time in 2, just because of how interesting a vast the enviroments are

In closing I still don't really know what to think of this game. It's really hard to justify the hours I spent unlocking core crystals, searching for an item that the buggy map point couldn't lead me to, feeding items to characters, salvaging for a RNG monster, losing a battle with a Tyrant because after 45 minutes of fighting, it managed to knock me off the precarious ledge it was positioned on. But the parts of the game that are good are REALLY REALLY good.

I'll need a little bit more time to figure out if I even like this game or not.
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Ok now for the second worst game I played this year:

Fire Emblem Fates - 3DS

Flavorless

Gosh, this was a really sad game to play. Fire Emblem is my favorite series, and I've loved all the games from the bone crunching difficult 5 to the baby friendly Awakening. Fates felt like someone else's Fire Emblem though. It kind of felt like it took all the worst things about Awakening, and capitalized on that. As someone who loves the concept of Waifu Emblem and baby making, this game couldn't excite me in the same way. Every character felt hollow and pointless, and as such, making babies with them felt kind of like breeding worms. As far as the gameplay went, it struck me as the same exact problems that awakening had, too easy on normal, too RNG hard on hard.

I'm probably going to go back to this game at some point and give it another shot, but it really left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Ok let's start off with the worst game I played this year

Pokemon Ultra Moon - 3DS

Pointless

You know a game has done poorly when you're legit considering calling the BBB to report consumer fraud. Ultra Sun and moon was billed as "Rediscover Alola" Most of us assumed we were going to have a Black 2/White 2 situation on our hands. This was a reasonable assumption, consider it's been nearly 10 years since Game Freak has tried the "third version with very little added" gimmick. I know it's a little naive to assume Game Freak would ever stop screwing over their fans in a certain way, but pokemon has a way of making me an eternal optimist.

This might be the least effort ever put into a third version, it almost feels like a hate note to their fans. For example: in the trailer, we see what it very clearly looks like Lt Surge's gym, with the trash cans arranged in a familiar fashion. Someone watching this might get excited: Are gyms coming back? Will Lt. Surge be in the game? What other types of gyms will there be in the game? Then we play the game and find out its literally just a room with 4 trainers, no type theme among the trainers, and no decent reward for clearing it out. It's almost mind baffling how little effort was put into the room, the english translations aren't even well done.

One of the early trailers also showed mega evolution, which the optimistic player might see and think "oh cool, they're fixing what they did with the last game and adding mega evolutions earlier!" Nope, everything is exactly the same on that front.

I will admit, I did enjoy the surfing minigame, but even that felt incomplete. Maybe I didn't play it enough, but it seemed like there was no way to show moves other than the two listed on the screen. The pokemon selection was better, which is nice, but honestly in this romhacking world, not really worth the cost of the version.
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Game Title - System

Good/Bad/Flawed

Your true, uncensored feelings

number/number if you're into that sort of stuff

Doesn't have to be a game that came out this year, just one you played this year.

I personally will be ranking all mine so stay tuned for that hot mess
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"I will attend to your every need.....at least for fighting"
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